snippet and FIPS message added

Author: eedugon

deploy-manage/deploy/_snippets/ece-supported-combinations.md

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+::::{important}
+Make sure to use a supported combination of Linux distribution and container engine version as defined in our official [Support matrix](https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix#elastic-cloud-enterprise). Unsupported combinations can lead to various issues in your ECE environment, including failures when creating system deployments, upgrading workload deployments, proxy timeouts, and more.
+
+Note that FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) compliance is not officially supported in ECE. While ECE may function on FIPS-enabled systems, this configuration has not been validated through our testing processes and is not recommended for production environments.
+::::

deploy-manage/deploy/cloud-enterprise/configure-host-rhel.md

@@ -25,8 +25,7 @@ Verify that required traffic is allowed. Check the [Networking prerequisites](ec
 
 **Example:** For AWS, allowing traffic between hosts is implemented using security groups.
 
-::::{important}
-Make sure to use a supported combination of Linux distribution and container engine version as defined in our official [Support matrix](https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix#elastic-cloud-enterprise). Unsupported combinations can lead to various issues in your ECE environment, including failures when creating system deployments, upgrading workload deployments, proxy timeouts, and more.
+::::{include} /deploy-manage/deploy/_snippets/ece-supported-combinations.md
 ::::
 
 ## Install Podman and configure the host [ece-configure-hosts-rhel8-podman]

deploy-manage/deploy/cloud-enterprise/configure-host-suse.md

@@ -28,8 +28,7 @@ Regardless of which approach you take, the steps in this section need to be perf
 
 ## Install Docker on SLES [ece-install-docker-sles12]
 
-::::{important}
-Make sure to use a supported combination of Linux distribution and container engine version as defined in our official [Support matrix](https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix#elastic-cloud-enterprise). Unsupported combinations can lead to various issues in your ECE environment, including failures when creating system deployments, upgrading workload deployments, proxy timeouts, and more.
+::::{include} /deploy-manage/deploy/_snippets/ece-supported-combinations.md
 ::::
 
 

deploy-manage/deploy/cloud-enterprise/configure-host-ubuntu.md

@@ -24,8 +24,7 @@ The following instructions show you how to prepare your hosts on Ubuntu.
 
 Install a compatible Docker version on Ubuntu.
 
-::::{important}
-Make sure to use a supported combination of Linux distribution and container engine version as defined in our official [Support matrix](https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix#elastic-cloud-enterprise). Unsupported combinations can lead to various issues in your ECE environment, including failures when creating system deployments, upgrading workload deployments, proxy timeouts, and more.
+::::{include} /deploy-manage/deploy/_snippets/ece-supported-combinations.md
 ::::
 
 

deploy-manage/deploy/cloud-enterprise/configure-operating-system.md

@@ -17,6 +17,5 @@ Before installing {{ece}}, you have to prepare your hosts with one of the follow
 * [Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Rocky Linux](configure-host-rhel.md)
 * [SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)](configure-host-suse.md)
 
-::::{important}
-Make sure to use a supported combination of Linux distribution and container engine version, such as `Docker` or `Podman`, as defined in our official [Support matrix](https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix#elastic-cloud-enterprise). Unsupported combinations can lead to various issues in your ECE environment, including failures when creating system deployments, upgrading workload deployments, proxy timeouts, and more.
-::::
+::::{include} /deploy-manage/deploy/_snippets/ece-supported-combinations.md
+::::